Long before I became a lawyer, an Iraq War veteran, a member of Congress, and served in the Obama administration, I had a very different job — one that came with a yellow neon jacket, a heavy flashlight, and a front-row view of the most raucous, chaotic section in all of Philadelphia sports.

I was a 125-pound security guard at the old Veterans Stadium, stationed in the notoriously rowdy 700 section, affectionately called “the zoo.” We even had our own courtroom in the basement. I often joke that my job there was tougher than I was a 165-pound Army paratrooper in the invasion of Iraq.

That’s Philly for you.

We do grit. We do hard knocks. We do “prove them wrong.”

And right now, as training camp heats up, that’s exactly what the defending Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles are doing

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